County report card · Minnesota
Olmsted County, Minnesota
County website Vendor (Tyler Technologies) prohibits automated data harvesting
- Population
- 166,424
- Portal
- Assessor & Recorder
- Portal vendor
- Tyler Technologies
What the audit checked
Four low-cost protections every online records portal can have. How we rate counties.
- robots.txtYes — permissive
- Terms of useNot checked
- Bot challengeNone detected
- Owner notificationUnknown
Portal audited: www.co.olmsted.mn.us/prl/propertyrecords/RecordingDocuments/Pages/LandShark.aspx, publicaccess.co.olmsted.mn.us/search/commonsearch.aspx?mode=realprop, publicaccess.co.olmsted.mn.us/forms/htmlframe.aspx?mode=content/home.htm, webapp.co.olmsted.mn.us/shoppingcart/site/planning/gis/WebMapping/default.aspx
Doing well
No protections against automated access were found in this audit.
Room to grow
- Expanding the robots.txt file to disallow automated scrapers
What to ask for
Building on the protections already in place, you might consider a property-owner notification system (like the ones AZ, FL, HI, IL, and UT have implemented) and a formal data-governance policy that addresses commercial data aggregators.
The full playbook is What Counties Can Do.